Profits are meagre, convenience is king, discounters are rife.

利润微薄、便利至上、折扣商店盛行。

Yet such services are often meagre.

但这类服务还不完善。

Data collection is meagre and infrequent.

因为这些数据收集得很，频率也很低。

Our individual failings are submerged; we become greater than the sum of our meagre parts.

我们个人的缺点被淹没了；我们变得比我们贫乏部分的总和更强大。

But investors have grown impatient with frackers' meagre profits.

但投资者已经对石油公司的微薄利润失去了耐心。

The SPD has paid dearly there, winning a meagre 12% of the vote in September.

社民党在图林根州付出了高昂的代价，却仅仅在9月的选举中获得了微薄的12%的选票。

The heavy rains threatened North Korea's already meagre food supply.

暴雨致使朝鲜本已微薄的粮食供应雪上加霜。

Help is needed not just for them, but for host communities who share their meagre resources.

需要帮助的不仅他们，还有那些接待他们并分享微薄资源的社区。

But when you look back over the past two decades, the developments seem underwhelming and the returns meagre.

但回顾过去20年会发现，事情的发似乎不尽如人意，回报也很有限。

It survived by eating plants and the meagre scraps of more dominant animals such as lions, hyenas, and jackals.

它靠吃植物以及更占优势的动物，如狮子、鬣狗和豺的量残羹剩饭生存下来。

Against the meagre might of Earth?

对付 贫弱的 势力 在 地球上（的）？

Today's HDTV sets begin to look spotty when their meagre 2.1m pixels are spread over screens greater than around 80 inches.

现今的2.1百万分辨率高清电视内容在80英寸的屏幕上显示很模糊。

The meagre daylight peered in through the grated windows, and showed him the gaunt figures of the weavers bending over their cases.

微弱的光线透过格栅窗射了进来，使他看见了那些俯在织机台上工作的织工们憔悴的身影。

The livestock is either dying or has been eaten. Food and water is very scarce. We are distributing rations, but they are meagre.

家畜要么频临死亡要么已入人口。食物和水所剩无几。我们虽限量分发，但还远远不够。

In the dead of winter, the monkeys are forced to rummage around the rocks for a few meagre morsels of lichen and moss.

在隆冬，猴子们被迫在石块上细细翻找，希望能发现量的青苔与苔藓。

And the more he finds about himself in other newspapers, the more indignant he will be with those whose reports are meagre.

他在其他报纸上读到的有关白己的报导越多，对报导不够充分的报纸就越气愤。

Yeobright's local peculiarity was that in striving at high thinking he still cleaved to plain living—nay, wild and meagre living in many respects, and brotherliness with clowns.

约布赖特本人的独特之处在于他追求崇高思想之际，仍然坚持朴素的生活——不，在许多方面那一种原始简陋的生活，同时跟乡邻们如兄弟般相处。

As societies get richer they spend a greater share of their income on labour-intensive services, such as restaurant meals, in which productivity growth is meagre because automation is hard.

随着社会变得更富裕，收入更多地花在劳动密集的服务业上，比如在餐馆用餐，而由于这些部门难以实现自动化，生产率的增长也十分可怜。

When the jobs on offer are poor, that cushion, though meagre, can be enough to draw people out of the labour force into indolence—particularly if families offer extra help.

当市场上提供的工作报酬很低时，这些缓冲手段即便微薄，也足以让人脱离劳动力队伍，陷入好逸恶劳的状态，尤其当家人也提供帮助的时候。

The cracking had been that of the window shutter downstairs, which the maid-servant was opening to let in the day, now slowly increasing to Nature's meagre allowance at this sickly time of the year.

那哗啦声楼下百叶窗发出的，女仆正打窗子好让日光照射进来，此时天色在渐渐放亮，不过，在一年当中这个没有生气的季节，日光暗淡。